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Selecting and purchasing a learning management system has become a major financial and strategic decision for colleges and universities. As the commercial LMS vendor sector shrinks due to company consolidation, schools are considering open source systems as a viable option for their learning management needs. Please send us your RFPs, vendor analysis or other LMS selection process resources to share with the community.

Articles and Reports

Vendors of Learning Management and E-learning Products, September 2012. This publication is a comprehensive 141 page list of LMS and E-Learning vendors.
A Post-LMS World, EDUCAUSE Review, January/February 2012.
Moving to Moodle: Reflections Two Years Later, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2008.
Open Source Software in Education, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2008.

Web Seminars and Podcasts

Learning Management Technologies: Enterprise System or Consumer Good? Video Recording from the 2009 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.
Selecting and Implementing a Course Management System for Your Campus, EDUCAUSE Live! August 5, 2009.
How Four Universities are Coping with CMS Market Consolidation, Podcast from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.

Commercial CMS/LMS Options

Blackboard http://www.blackboard.com/
Blackboard folksonomy term
Desire to Learn http://www.desire2learn.com/
desire2learn folksonomy term
eCollege http://www.ecollege.com/index.learn

Open Source Options

Updated September 2012

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Expertiza: Scalable Reviewing for Student-Authored Content: September 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session
When multiple authors-especially student authors-collaborate to write a single work, quality control is very important. The instructor/editor rarely has time enough to review each contribution mu…
Campus Computing 2011: The National Survey of E-Learning and Information Technology in American Higher Education: October 20, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, e-learning, and information technology in U.S. higher education. This session will present the …
7 Things You Should Know About LMS Evaluation: May 11, 2011

At many institutions, the current LMS is five or more years old. In that time, the teaching and learning context might have changed considerably, and other products, including open-source o…
Reconsidering the Learning Management System - Furniture provided by Herman Miller, An EDUCAUSE Silver Partner: February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
From Community Source to Open Data: Leveraging the Sakai Community to Make Better Decisions Steven Lonn, Research Fellow, University of Michigan Mathieu Plourde, Project Leader, LMS, Universi…
The Evolving LMS Market, Part I and Part II: December 21, 2010

In this post,the author discusses what the data are telling us so far about the recent shifts in the market, describe how colleges and universities come to decide that they need to go to market f…
How to Implement Technology: Houston Community College's Learning Web: February 23, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE West/Southwest Regional Conference 2011
In August 2010, Houston Community College began implementation of a completely new version of its public-facing content management system. This system was developed in conjunction with a contractor…
CHANGE: Migrating from a Legacy LMS to an Open-Source Moodle Platform: January 13, 2011 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2011
What special considerations should be taken when evaluating a transition to Moodle? Why should I consider managed open source? And is the cloud the right fit for my institution? These questions rep…
Building Bridges with Moodle: Connecting an Institution: October 15, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Deploying an open-source enterprise LMS requires myriad decisions to meet the needs of different units with varied goals. A collaboratively run LMS governance structure has allowed us to achieve a …
The 2010 Campus Computing Survey: Two Decades of Data, Information, and Insight About IT Planning and Policy Issues: October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, e-learning, and information technology in U.S. higher education. This session will present the …
A New Solution for Creating Versatile Learning Environments: MyUOC (Learning Technology): January 21, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
MyUOC is the new open-source online learning environment from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) that has been designed to allow users to build their own learning environment according to their…

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